Professional contributions

Publications

2022

2021

2019

2018

2017

2016

Policy submissions

2017

2016

  • Marina Kofman ‘Impacts of the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership on Australia’ Submission to Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee Inquiry on the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (Nov 2016)  
  • Marina Kofman ‘Technological Innovations and New Business Systems’ Submission to the Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession Commission of Inquiry, Law Society of NSW (Oct 2016)

Presentations

2019

  • ‘Investor State Arbitration: A Force for Good?’ Debate Speaker (CIArb Australia Young Members Group, Australian Arbitration Week, Brisbane, 19 November 2019)  
  • ‘Future of Trade, Investment & International Commercial Arbitration Disputes’ Panel Chair (International Law Association & NSW Young Lawyers Conference, ‘The Future of International Dispute Settlement’, Sydney, 27 June 2019)

2018

  • ‘Current Issues in International Arbitration: third party funding, expedited proceedings and investor-state dispute settlement reform’ Panellist (AFIA Symposium, Australian Arbitration Week, Melbourne, 18 Oct 2018)
  • ‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Challenges and Reforms’ Presentation on ‘Current Challenges in International Dispute Settlement’ Panellist (78th Biennial International Law Association Conference, Sydney, 20 August 2018)
  • ‘Current developments in investor-state dispute settlement’ Panellist (4th Annual May Seminar, UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee for Australia, Canberra, 25 May 2018)

2017

  • ‘Arbitration, UNCITRAL and Australia’ Presentation (University of Queensland & UNCITRAL Trade Law Forum: ‘50 Years of UNCITRAL’, Brisbane, 2 Dec 2016)

Professional Memberships

  • Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration Australasia Representative (Jan 2019 – present); ACICA Representative & Publications sub-Committee (Sept 2016 – Jan 2019)
  • ARIAS (Asia) (Insurance and Reinsurance Arbitration Society) Head of Arbitrator Panel (Mar 2017 – Jun 2021) and Regional Head of Australia (Mar 2017 – Present)
  • Law Society of NSW Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee Member (2022, 2020, 2019 and 2017); ADR Policy sub-Committee (2017)
  • Law Society of NSW Litigation Law and Practice Committee Member (2021)
  • UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee for Australia Fellow (Oct 2016-2020)
  • Australian Professional Indemnity Group NSW Steering Committee Member (Oct 2015 – April 2016)
  • NSW Young Lawyers International Law Committee
  • Vice Chair (May 2015 – April 2017)
  • Program Convenor, International Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Series (Jan 2016 – Oct 2016)
  • Australian Institute of International Affairs Coordinator (Feb 2013 – Jun 2015)

Editorial roles

  • Utrecht Journal of International and European Law Specialist Editor (June 2017– Present)
  • International Law Association (Australian Branch) Assistant Editor, ILA Reporter (Sept 2016 – Dec 2017)

Treaty negotiations

  • UNCITRAL Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) Delegate, resumed 38th session, Vienna (Jan 2020); Delegate, 38th session, Vienna (Oct 2019); Delegate, 36th session, Vienna (Oct 2018); 35th Session, New York (April 2018); 34th session, Vienna (Nov 2017)
  • Hague Conference on Private International Law Assistant to the Permanent Bureau, Special Commission on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, The Hague (Feb 2017)
  • UNCITRAL Working Group II (Dispute Settlement) Delegate, 67th session, Vienna (Oct 2017), 66th Session, New York (Feb 2017), 65th Session, Vienna (Sept 2016)
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